Back to Business School!
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As a new academic year begins, we're highlighting books in the BU Libraries all about the business school experience. From study skill refreshers to insights in the art of networking, BU Libraries has a vast trove of information to help you crush the semester ahead.
For first-year students, be sure to check out our orientation information to introduce you to BU Libraries and how to use the services and collections of an academic library.
All of us at Pardee and our colleagues across the BU Libraries are excited to work with all of you; we wish you a great semester!
Featured Reading: Back to Business School
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The Black Student's Pathway to Graduate Study and Beyond: The Making of a Scholar
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023An informative and ambitious book designed to help Black prospective and current graduate students pursue graduate degrees successfully. Topics include standardized tests, financing, networking, exams, dissertation writing, and campus culture. -
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials & Connections
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Drawing on evidence-based research, illuminating case studies, and in-depth interviews, Ben Wildavsky shares how to cultivate a mix of broad and targeted skills, taking advantage of employer-funded education benefits, and preparing for the world as it is. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Business Students
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023If you read nothing else to stand out in class and prepare for what's next, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you understand the most important ideas in management, feel confident in business school, and thrive in any role you take on.
Back to Business School Books
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MBA Coffee Chats: Thoughtful Advice on How to Get the Most Out of Your MBA
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021This book isn't about getting into an MBA program. You've already done that. This is for Admits and first-years who want to make the most of it. It's a special and unique two-year period in your life and career. You should go into it prepared with a plan. This book will help. -
Diary of a First-Generation College Student Part I: Stories and Steps Towards Your College Success
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Location: Mugar Stacks LC4096.6 .M57 2024Publication Date: 2024Honest and practical college advice written by a first-generation college student turned PhD. Over 100 tips from nearly 100 first-gen graduates. Go from confused to confident about college, career, and beyond! -
How to Get the Most Out of College: 127 Ways to Make Connections, Make it Work for You, and Make a Difference
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022The practical suggestions on how to do this are formatted to be easily browsed and understood, with a sentence or two on what to do, the evidence and reasoning behind it, and how to do it, along with a short student story so students can hear from each other directly. -
Connections are Everything: A College Student's Guide to a Relationship-Rich Education
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This empowering book shows students the simple steps they can take to make their own college experience meaningful and transformational. In short, practical chapters, learn how to build significant relationships with mentors, peers, and educators. -
Grad School Life: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Coursework and Research
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024With fresh insights, concrete suggestions and exercises, and helpful lists of resources, this book gives grad students a new roadmap for not only surviving but thriving—both in school and in the real world. -
The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Equal parts how-to guide, personal reflection, manifesto, and academic musing, this book gives a culturally resonant perspective that speaks to the unique Latinx graduate student experience. -
The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2025Drawing on her experiences in higher education, start-ups, and management consulting, as well as interviews with a range of academics and entrepreneurs, Ilana Horwitz provides a road map for those stifled by traditional academic norms and expectations. -
The Secret Syllabus: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of College Success
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022The authors illustrate ways to achieving academic excellence. This fresh, funny, and boldly innovative book enables students to develop the consistently winning and effective behaviors that will equip them to thrive on campus and beyond. -
You've Got This: A Student's Guide to Wellbeing at University and Beyond
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Student life can be overwhelming. But there are simple and effective ways that you can take ownership of your mental health, meaning you stay stress free, enjoy your university experience and achieve academic success.
Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month is observed from September 15 to October 15 by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
The day of September 15 is significant because it is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively. Also, Columbus Day or Día de la Raza, which is October 12, falls within this 30 day period.
Source: Hispanic Heritage Month Site
Featured Reading: Hispanic Heritage Month
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Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
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Location: Pardee Display TablePublication Date: 2025In this biography of the world's most famous tequila maker, award-winning author Ted Genoways introduces us to a man who forever changed both the alcohol business and relations between Mexico and the U.S. -
Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2025Lori A. Flores travels from New Jersey to Maine and introduces readers to the migrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell America's food, and their century-long fights against low pay, exploitation, medical neglect, criminalization, and ironically, food insecurity. -
Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Drawing on union records, industry reports, film scripts, and oral histories, Aimee Loiselle's cutting-edge scholarship shows how gender, race, culture, film, and mythology have reconfigured the history of the American working class and their labor activism.
Books for Hispanic Heritage Month
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Latinx Business Success: How Latinx Ingenuity, Innovation, and Tenacity Are Driving Some of the World's Biggest Companies
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021A full picture of how to succeed in modern leadership and how to close the digital divide that keeps Latinx people underrepresented in positions of authority. -
My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016Undocumented since she was 15, Julissa lived in a loop of sacrifice and fear. But her top grades landed her an internship at Goldman Sachs, and eventually one of the most coveted jobs on Wall Street. She recounts her personal story of separation, grief, and redemption. -
The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022From the 1960s to the 1980s, the United Farm Workers (UFW) was one of the most iconic social movements in American history. Spotlighting the movement's ordinary farmworkers and volunteers, Christian O. Paiz reveals the equally heroic and tragic story of the UFW. -
Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Conservative white Midwesterners and undocumented Mexican farm workers seem to have little in common. But Ruth Conniff reveals that global economic raptures in labor, immigration, and food production have brought them together and led to surprising friendships. -
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022MacArthur Genius Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourished its midcentury community of Mexican immigrants with belonging. -
Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Located on the eastern edge of Tampa, Ybor City was a neighborhood of cigar workers and Caribbean revolutionaries who fought for social and economic justice in the first half of the 20th century. This book highlights the immigrant women who organized strikes and marched against Nazis in the Jim Crow South.
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